A sick sad tale of two grandmothers:
When I was young my family drank a lot of tea, I still do. My mother forbade coffee for us young ones and I used to go visit my paternal grandmother for it. I was supposed to visit her to practice on her piano but it was for the hit. I’d first tasted it on a trip with her to a country football match-she had a thermos flask. She bought the instant coffee essence in a bottle and I was not above the occasional spoonful of that on its own (with a little sugar). A few years later my maternal grandmother decides to take my brother and I to Sydney for a short holiday. This involved many tourist activities, including going to Manley on a ferry and going out for coffee. I was clueless and just picked the first one on the list, short black. That is IT. Pure hell for dai tenshi and the likes I am sure, but a few weeks later I had put my first little home espresso machine on lay-buy purchase. Sad…

I had the most awesome coffee drink in history the other day. It was a Red Bull Americano. Meaning, two or three shots of espresso mixed with a Red Bull (instead of water, as a normal Americano is made).

2/3 of it is still in my fridge because I'm afraid to consume it all at one time.

But yeah, as George Carlin Lewis Black said in a comedy bit, you can find a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks in this country.

I had the most awesome coffee drink in history the other day. It was a Red Bull Americano. Meaning, two or three shots of espresso mixed with a Red Bull (instead of water, as a normal Americano is made).

2/3 of it is still in my fridge because I'm afraid to consume it all at one time.

But yeah, as George Carlin said in a comedy bit, you can find a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks in this country.

you're sure that wasn't Lewis Black?

(not that it matters. i'm just too tired to contribute anything of real value)

In Seattle we have coffee houses that roast their own organic coffee and sell it to other coffee houses, we have Starbucks in grociery stores, and we have bars that are also coffee shops (so you can get a drink, then a coffee, then a drink, then watch your heart explode).